“My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.” MenHas BeensWarCoursesAbilityHalfWifeImpossibleAchievementOrdinaryEnglandMy WifeBrilliantAidsDevotedOrdinary ManMarry MeBetter Half Author:Winston Churchill
“If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.” IfsWorldWantTryingLooksMomentsBigsAbilityPowerfulImagineOrdinaryCoreLeapMaking ChangesI Want A Woman Author:Liya Kebede
“the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.” LyingHumanityIndividualAbilityCommonMoralBreakCenturyRacismSolutionsOrdinaryAbsolutesCollectivesBlindnessImperativesBrillianceInevitabilityAbility To SeeCircularityUbiquity Book:Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race Source: Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race
“Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.” FacesAbilityDarknessOrdinaryUltimateOrdinary PeopleAnthem Author:Joe Dempsie
“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.” MenArtTwoThreeAbilityTalentHe ManMaterialsGeniusTenPerceptionOrdinaryCapacityPlusMultipleRegisterOrdinary Man Author:Ezra Pound
“The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.” PeopleRealityFacesAbilityOrdinaryCurseLackingOrdinary PeopleRationalize Book:Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays
“Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.” PeopleThinkingShouldHeartArtAbilityOrdinaryArt IsShould HaveMysteriousElitesOrdinary People Author:Ai Weiwei
“Through persistence and hard work, we can each unlock the potential God has given us. We have within us not only the capacity to accomplish great things but also the ability to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways.” WayHardGivenAbilityHard WorkOrdinaryCapacityExtraordinaryAccomplishGreat ThingsPersistenceOrdinary Things Author:Lloyd D. Newell